Foggy Wednesday (Day 3): I like David Seah’s fogbrain reflections (insights, followup). He does a great job of stepping outside himself and watching what’s going on. How does he do that? Must practice this myself. Coincidentally, I’m learning more about NodeJS and Express myself, so doubleplus good. =)

Learning Problems: Incremental learning versus discontinuous / step-based learning. Also related: Mastery, the plateau, and sticking with it even though you don’t feel any significant progress.

Writers write and innovators innovate: “The big gap isn’t between people and firms doing incremental innovations and those doing big disruptive ones. The big gap is between those that aren’t innovating at all in any form, and those that are.” One of the things that encourages me to keep inching forward is the thought that it takes so little action to distinguish yourself from people who never take that first step. It’s depressing (how can so many people be stuck?), but it’s also encouraging (how can I help them get unstuck, and in the meantime, how can I make the most of these small steps?.